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SpaceX's 7th Starship flight didn't achieve all it set out to For the first time, SpaceX flew Starship with a reused Raptor rocket engine. The Super Heavy booster runs on 33 Raptor engines.
SpaceX's billionaire owner Elon Musk later hinted at a possible cause, posting to his X platform: "Preliminary indication is that we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine ...
Elon Musk has finally broken his silence after his company’s rocket, the most powerful ever made, exploded shortly after launch. Starship successfully left its launchpad in Texas on Thursday ...
Starship flight test 8 will be the eighth flight test of a SpaceX Starship launch vehicle. Ship 34 and Booster 15 are expected to fly on this test flight. [2] [3] It is expected to be the second flight of a Block 2 ship. After Flight 6, Elon Musk stated that flight 8 could be the first 'catch' of the Ship should flight 7's landing be successful ...
The fourth flight test of the full Starship configuration launched on June 6, 2024, at 7:50 AM CDT. [117] The goals for the test flight were for the ship to survive peak heating during atmospheric reentry. [118] The ship survived atmospheric reentry and successfully ignited its engines for a controlled splashdown. [119]
Last year the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) noted in a 183-page document that SpaceX needed to comply with over 75 mitigation measures ahead of the Starship rocket launch program.
When stacked and fully fueled, Starship has a mass of approximately 5,000 t (11,000,000 lb), [c] a diameter of 9 m (30 ft) [17] and a height of 121.3 m (398 ft). [6] The rocket has been designed with the goal of being fully reusable to reduce launch costs; [18] it consists of the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage [19] which are powered by Raptor and Raptor Vacuum engines.
SpaceX launched the largest rocket ever built for the first time on Thursday from its Boca Chica, Texas, spaceport.